- Arsaces
Arsaces — a polisonym, inhabitants of the city of Arsaca in Hyrcania. Hyrcania (Greek: Ὑρκανία from Old Persian: Varkana — "Land of Wolves") — the Greek name for the region along the southeastern coast of the Caspian Sea, in the basin of the modern Gurgan and Atrek rivers, which was part of Persia. Incidentally, Iberia in Ashkharatsuyts. 700 AD. Ed. Patkanov 1877 is consonantly called Virk. The inhabitants of Hyrcania in antiquity were nomads, and the Caspian Sea was called the Hyrcanian Sea. Under Darius I, Hyrcania was united with Media. Later, together with Parthia, it formed a separate satrapy. Alexander the Great during his campaign against Persia conquered Hyrcania, seizing its main city Zadracarta (probably modern Gorgan). Gorgan or Hyrcania or Jurjan (Persian: گرگان, "Land of the Wolf") — a city in Iran, the administrative center of Golestan province. The name Gorgan is translated from Persian as "land of the wolf" (گرگ — wolf, ان — suffix indicating locality). In antiquity, when the city was part of the satrapy of Hyrcania (from Pahlavi Varkâna — "land of wolves"), it was called Zadracarta. The Arabs called Gorgan — Jurjan, and the Greeks, besides Hyrcania — Chircan.
VARIANT NAMES: Latin. Arsaces, Russian. Arsaki.
Sources:
Ethnogenesis of the Abkhazians. D.A. Arshba, 2015